Presented by Oral History NSW and Professional Historians Association (NSW & ACT).

Public history shapes our communities’ understandings of the past. This series explores the issues that stimulate and bedevil the work of public historians. These seminars aim to encourage a more reflective approach to the practice of history and create conversations across a diverse cohort of practitioners.  

Join historians Emma Dortins and Mark Dunn with chair Madeleine Shanahan online via Zoom for what will be a fascinating discussion. 

Speakers:   

Emma Dortins is a public historian currently working for Heritage NSW. She completed a PhD in history at Sydney University in 2012 and published her first book The Lives of Stories: three Aboriginal-settler friendships with ANU Press in 2018.  

Mark Dunn has worked as a professional historian in the heritage industry for over 20 years. His work has included research on sites ranging from individual houses, to entire suburbs, comparative histories of hotels, to large scale industry, defence sites, thematic histories and regional studies.  

Chair:  
Madeline Shanahan, Associate and Manager GML Heritage, is a consulting historian and archaeologist based in Sydney. Madeline is an active researcher and author of two books. Her research interests relate to food history, recipe books, women’s history and domestic space.   

Register online for free via the State Library, this is an online event.